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Sara Manns

@whatsarasaid.bsky.social
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Policy director~professor~utility infielder for bodily autonomy. Roots in Ohio, branches in NM & CA. We're going to get the government out of your doctor’s office, because freedom is for every body.

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Rick Burin @rickburin.bsky.social · 9h
I want to hear more about the second of these writing sessions
Jeffrey Archer, former
Conservative politician and novelist, dies aged 86
Publisher says author died peacefully at home
'between writing sessions'
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an evan @elsplice.bsky.social · 13h
What’s weed like?
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David Roberts @volts.wtf · 20h
Holy shit.
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Sara Manns @whatsarasaid.bsky.social · 23h
Once again, my anti-carceral principles are flexible: This is illegal & should be prosecuted to the fullest extent of the law, with the participants in this scheme to divert your tax dollars from the designated federal programs into the pockets of Trump supporters sentenced to the limit of the law.
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Cheryl Rofer @cherylrofer.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Now there's a man who's never been pregnant!
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Sara Manns @whatsarasaid.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Thisis true only about my uncle who is now 95 has been putting the new personal computer my cousin (now a retired COBOL programmer) brings over every couple of years in the basement since Windows 95. The man is a retired police chief who farms soybeans. He still doesn’t like the Internet. N of 1!
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Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Part of why I don't like the AI-or-bust economy is the constant flopsweat of people on the news who say this HAS to work. Quit making everyone so anxious. Goddamn. If this is the next Google then why are you acting like this? I don't remember being told to buy an iPhone at gunpoint.
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Corey Rayburn Yung @coreyryung.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
You use genAI to help you program, which yields fixed code, determinate outcomes, and replicable research. You don't use it as a digital oracle.
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Sara Manns @whatsarasaid.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Every meeting you’re called into by HR:
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Summer 🏳️‍⚧️ @artgirlsummer.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
"Trump voters voted for $7 diesel and $15 beef. You're smarter than that. Vote Democrat."
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ceej @ceej.online · 04/10/2026
“how do we win back trump voters in 2026” we don’t. we create an environment where admitting to voting for trump is so socially embarrassing as to render them completely inert. you don’t “win back” trump voters. you demoralize them into staying home. you make it a dunce cap
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Sara Manns @whatsarasaid.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
In 2000, I moved to a new city. The directions to my house from the freeway were spoken the phone to the person who was writing them down on paper, who would follow them while driving. Our brains had a space for How To Get There you can use on song lyrics or the periodic table or whatever, enjoy
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Sara Manns @whatsarasaid.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
I endorse this message
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Sara Manns @whatsarasaid.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Trump is wrong even about tge thing he’s right about: Canada has 5 time zones & the lower 48 U.S. should too. That would solve the underlying problems with permanent daylight or standard time: people being injured & killed in the accidents that happen in the weeks after the change at a higher rate
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Amanda Katz @katzish.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
A lot of very unhappy parents of trans and nonbinary kids, too, not enjoying seeing a mob whipped up toward children
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Madeline Ashby @madelineashby.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Critics: There cannot be a kinkier relationship at the core of a film than the romance in PHANTOM THREAD. COYOTE V ACME: …Hold my anvil.
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Sara Manns @whatsarasaid.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
The devil’s fuel
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Sara Manns @whatsarasaid.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Now that I know this was started by a Texas GOP politician getting mad & sad that the kids in Stetsons throwing hook em horns were of South Asian ethnicity, let’s hear them out. Love to have JD explain how his kids should be hazed to keep America pure but he’s still mad meemaw didn’t make him study
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Starfire’s Deranged Neocon Foreign Policy Podcast @irhottakes.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
"Why are all these Asians in our universities!" idk man, they read a book from time to time, I dunno what to tell you. They got whole fuckin' libraries full of them in every town in America.
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Starfire’s Deranged Neocon Foreign Policy Podcast @irhottakes.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
White conservatives will literally entertain ethnic cleansing before making their kid do their homework to be academically competitive.
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mtsw @mtsw.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Paris Mayor Anne Hidalgo put her vision for the city like this: "A city where you can get let go of your child's hand"
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Brandon Friedman @brandonfriedman.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Pete is lost in terms of modern war. I use the example of this outgunned Ukrainian army officer who successfully terrorized a Russian unit for weeks because she "did the math." At the time, someone commented, "yeah, in combat, 'I did the math' beats 'I can do 100 pushups' every time."
Ukrainian female soldier: Okay, I said the idea is this: There is enough time to empty one full can of 32 grenades and be gone by the time the return mortar fire reaches us. I did the math.
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Angie Nixon @angieforfl.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
The most ordinary man imaginable came to my home state to tell me to ‘get out of America’ while he & Absent Ashley enjoyed the comfort of buildings my ancestors helped build. Imagine standing on the shoulders of the ppl who built this country & then telling their descendants they don’t belong here/2
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Sara Manns @whatsarasaid.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
When they read out 'Bush v Gore' at SCOTUS, I felt like I'd fallen into a frozen pond. It's been 26 years; I've raised the baby who rode in the backpack to the polls to adulthood, in a country with a corrupt judiciary that stole an election for partisan gain. All Trump did was pick up Chekov's gun.
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Sara Manns @whatsarasaid.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
My in-laws are thriving in a community of retired people who like to complain that their adult children nearing retirement age work too much, because we don't confine our work to a place and time they understand to be "work". Bless them all.
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Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
It’s amazing how after 40+ years of working, a retired person immediately forgets that other people are still working and cannot answer the phone at odd times of the day. “What are you doing?!” Well, it’s 10:04 am on a Thursday so I’m doing about what you used to do at this day & time.
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Sara Manns @whatsarasaid.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
While it's true that in grad school you have to cite the most insane nonsense ever published in your field to dispose of it, life is not grad school! You don't have to debate "ideas" like 'more teenagers should have babies' or 'there's nothing we can do about AI killing all humans', you can just not
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Sara Manns @whatsarasaid.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
I don't remotely understand the specific racism the president was doing here but I hope the voters who inflicted this on the world are very proud of themselves
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Claire Willett @clairewillett.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
rewatching “9 to 5” for the first time in probably 12 years and if there really is a heaven I hope it’s just getting stoned with Dolly Parton, Jane Fonda and Lily Tomlin I love women so much
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Elizabeth Spiers @espiers.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
One thing that i don’t see people noting about the Cornell Sun’s reporting on the rape case is that everyone who decided to take the risk and made the core decisions about what would be published is a woman
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Sara Manns @whatsarasaid.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
this fumble was brought to you by Eric Schmitt, noted Protector Of Women's Sports (who didn't know DI WBB was a sport people who are into sports might get tickets for)
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Ed Burmila @edburmila.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
[SENATOR ERIC SCHMITT]: So you’re telling me under oath that you’ve never spoken with a bestselling author who is insane [JACK SMITH]: No [SCHMITT]: WELL THEN *unveils poster* please explain this picture of you with Naomi Wolf! [SMITH]: That is Naomi Klein sir
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Jess Piper @piperformissouri.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
😂😂😂
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Sara Manns @whatsarasaid.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
This is a compelling description of a social problem
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Walker Bragman @walkerbragman.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
NEW from @accountabilityji.bsky.social and @assignedmedia.org: Reporter @billiejsweeney.bsky.social has an important story on the changing dynamics of the politics around transgender rights and issues. www.importantcontext.news/democrats-lo...
importantcontext.news
Democrats Lose by Punching Down on Trans Issues, Strategists Say
Insiders, including at centrist think tank Third Way, are cautioning Democratic candidates against echoing Republican talking points on trans rights.
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ArtButMakeItSports @artbutmakeitsports.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Circus Performers, by Walt Kuhn, 1978, 📸 via @marisakabas.bsky.social
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Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
operationalizing “users” as people who “believe they are getting value” is sloppy. something we teach in sociology. 🤷🏾‍♀️
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Josh Marshall @joshtpm.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
omg. yes, they actually have video of him at the game. when does marshall mcluhan walk out and dunk on sen schmitt?
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Allison Gill @muellershewrote.com · 29/09/2026
Today I learned that Jack Smith is a Caitlin Clark fan and that Amy Klobuchar knows more about sports than Eric Schmitt.
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Sara Manns @whatsarasaid.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
They don’t know who Caitlin Clark is but they are sure the WNBA officials aren’t calling when she’s fouled by black trans players
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Christoff @bowser1805.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Didn't Examine Intently
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Sara Manns @whatsarasaid.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Noted Women’s Sports defender Eric Schmitt was not aware that the Iowa Lady Hawkeyes’ 2024 team featured a national phenom named Caitlyn Clark & never thought that Jack Smith, Ironman triathlete & girl dad who enjoys sports, might attend a local game to watch NCAA D1 WBB. Says a lot about Eric!
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Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Gobsmacked by the elite levels of not knowing ball in the Senate today, thinking an NBA team is called the Hawkeyes then, refusing to Google it, then accusing a guy of treason because you didn’t know the Iowa Lady Hawkeyes aren’t in the NBA. Somehow I don’t trust these people to Save Girls Sports.
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I Scare You Like Sound Dog @chadstanton.blacksky.app · 29/09/2026
Their idea is that this guy is some evil and single-minded political actor out to take out a former President, taking a clandestine meeting in the middle of a grand conspiracy, but he had to catch a Hawks game lol
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Prasad Jallepalli, MD, PhD @prasad.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
5 potatoes cubed is still 5 potatoes because potatoes are root vegetables
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Sara Manns @whatsarasaid.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
When my HS math teacher told his colleagues in Boston that he was following his wife to Oberlin's Conservatory, one of them said: ...oh, we pronounce it Iowa Hawks, Hawkeyes, same thing
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The Volatile Mermaid @ohnoshetwitnt.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
“In addition, giraffes are now tall horses. Because that’s what they are. They’re just tall horses. Everybody knows it, they just don’t say it. I’m not afraid to say these things. And those so-called capybaras will be known as ultimate guinea pigs.”
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Ghostly Bree @mostlybree.kitrocha.com · 29/09/2026
I think the thing I resent most about what the tech overlords have done to the internet is that I planted a fucking garden. you literally made the internet so stressful I went outside and touched grass. i will never forgive you
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Sara Manns @whatsarasaid.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
So when we invade Cuba and somehow lose THAT war also, gas doubles again? I don't think a lot of people have $9/gal.
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Sara Manns @whatsarasaid.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
My course on social strata and social policy just started our unit on 'class', I'm sending the campaign some money to do my job of developing curriculum 😂
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